"For thus the power of death was overcome, and the dominion of corruption, which had gained sway over us, was destroyed." (St Cyril of Alexandria)
In his 1882 book, The Joyful Wisdom, and in others, the Prussian born, philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) declared "God is dead." Whatever he may have meant in what we would call theological terms, he seemingly was saying that western civilisation based on Christianity, with its ...